超音波骨量測定装置 Benus の有用性の検討

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Seventy-eight healthy Japanese women, 20's to 70's were evaluated for bone mass by two methods-DEXA (Dual Enargy X-ray Absorptiometry) measured at the 2nd-4th lumbar spine and right calcaneus (Bone Mineral Density : BMD), and Ultrasound bone densitometry measured at the right and left calcaneus by Benus (Bone Area Ratio : BAR). The results were as follows. (1) The relation between the results mesured by DEXA in different parts was very high, therefore, it is possible to estimate the bone mass of lumbar spine, by measurement of calcaneus. (2) BAR is useful to conjecture the bone mass in screening, because of high correlation among BMD and BAR. (3) The correlation coefficient between BMD and BAR at calcaneus was 0.592. This results would mean the difference of quality among two methods, BMD and BAR. (4) There was a little difference between BMD and BAR (r = 0.592), but Ultrasound Bone Densitometry is useful to estimate bone mass for screening.
中京大学の論文
1998-11-01